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VOL. XXVII, No. 8
Kohn Outlines
War's Meaning
In Modern Life
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mi�r
College, IMP
PRICE 10 CENTS
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Counter - Revolution Ideals
Of Authoritarianism
Oppose Democracy
Goodhart Auditorium, Friday,
November 15. � "Understanding
Our Time" was the subject of Dr.
Hans Kohn's address at the second
Undergraduate Assembly. Dr.
Kohn, professor of Modern Euro-
pean History at Smith College, be-
lieves that, while the last war was
one of economic aggression, the
present struggle is much more dan-
gerous because its aim is to de-
stroy democracy and to revert to
authoritatism.
For an understanding of what
this war involves, we must realize
that no "wave of the future" will
carfy the revolution against de-
f mdcracy on to a new and better
*�* ~ concept of man. Rather democracy
is the young, superior power which
now has to face the forces of "a
conscious effort to lead mankind
backward to authoritarianism, to
the inequality of men, to the de-
nial of the right of the individual
to use his reason freely."
Democracy is the youngest force
in the world today. It was born
in seventeenth-century England,
proclaimed in the French Revolu-
tion, and has found its freest ex-
pression in America. France has
been the battleground of the new
truth and the old, counter-revolu-
tionary dispensation, which has re-
cently triumphed in France's sur-
render. That this age-old primi-
tive attitude is hailed as a new
faith, "only because it invests it-
self with achievements of modern
technique, is one of the most sad-
dening symptoms of the time."
But democracy is not finished.
Britain's refusal to be defeated
l.uiiiiniKd on Tage Four
Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 20.�
France Forever Group,
Mrs. Eugene Houdry, Mu-
sic Room, Wyndham, 7.30
p. m.
Saturday, Nov. 23.�
Denbigh Dance.
Monday, Nov. 25.�
History of Science Lecture,
Miss Lehr, Dalton Hall,
7.30 p. m.
Bundles For Britain and
British War Relief Christ-
mas Sale, Deanery.
Tuesday, Nov. 26.�
Current Events, Common
Room, 7.30 p. ni.
Entertainment Series Con-
cert, Helen Traubel, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30 p. m.
Bundles For Britain and
British War Relief Christ-
mas Sale, Deanery. '
Miss Traubel to Sing Dr. David Given Joint Appointment
In Next Series Event d d m in 1
By Bryn Mawr and Pennsylvania
Benefit to Complete
Workshop Suggested
In discussing the problem of the
Theatre Workshop, Fifi Garbat, '41,
proposed that a benefit be held to
raise the money for technical
equipment which is needed to com-
plete the Theatre Worshop. There
is no lighting equipment, no cur-
tains for the stage. Batons are
needed for both the lighting and
the curtains, and a system of pul-
leys is necessary to regulate the
batons.
The minimum cost for this equip-
ment will be five hundred dollars.
At present, a hundred dollars, half
given from the President's fund
and half by the Players Club is
available. The students will not
be asked for money since they have
already given so much. The only
way to raise the funds is to have a
benefit, for the money from the
performance would come in a lump
sum, and work could be started im-
mediately.
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German Clubs Dance
And Sing 'Volkslieder'
After the Living Newspaper,
Friday evening, November 15, the
Haverford German Club waltzed
with the Bryn Mawr German Club
in the Common Room to the oom-
pah rhythm of Strauss three-four.
Later in the evening all sang Volka-
lieder, Haverford providing har-
mony, and introducing a few new
songs. Cider and doughnuts were
served.
Civil Liberty Abuse
Dramatized by Play
The Gym, November 15.�The
Living Newspaper, presented joint-
ly by students, maids and porters,
and the Industrial Group, consisted
of a series of scenes illustrating
abuses of civil liberties in this
country.
The first scene was an action
scene dramatizing extra-legal- dis-
franchisement in the South: the
shadow of the Klan broke up a
meeting of negroes and poor
whites. The effect was achieved
by a lighting technique.
The key scene of the play came
second. Draped on a bar-room ta-
ble, Alice Judson, '43, as a worker,
spoke of what is happening to our
civil rights. The theme was taken
up by other members of the bar-
room group. As each chimed in,
there took form an outline that
indicated the different fields in
which rights are being lost.
Scenes followed on the Jersey
City infringements of labor rights.
The script for these scenes was
written by the Germantown work-
ers who belong to the Industrial
Group. The Ann Arbor dismis-
sals, and the legal disfranchise-
ment of the Community minority
were also depicted, in several short
scenes.
The Dies Committee and its ex-
aggerated pomposity was shown up
by means of Virginia Nichols' dex-
terous eye-brows. Ginny appeared
labeled Dies Committee Man, and
chased Shirley Temple in and out
of curtains.
Metropolitan Soprano Plans
To Include Spiritual,
Romantic Music
The second event of the College
Entertainment Series will be a re-
cital given by Helen Traubel, dra-
matic soprano of the Metropolitan,
on Tuesday, November 26, in Good-
hart Hall. \.
Miss Traubel was t>orti in St.
Louis and pursued her musical
studies there. After making her
debut with the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra, her fame spread
throughout the Middle-West. It is
only since 1939, when she first sang
in New York, however, that she
Contlnuea on Pace Thres
Bryn Mawr Group
Attends Conference
Variety of Content
Will Enliven 'Lantern'
The fall number of the Lantern
which appears this week is largely
devoted to fiction and poetry, five
stories and five poems, plus an ar-
ticle and a book review. There is
not as mnch variety of literary
form as the board hopes to see in
future issues, but ample variation
to provide material pleasing to
each reader. It is hoped that every
one. on campus who is interested
in creative writing will read this
issue, and, if they have any sug-
gestions or criticisms, relay them
to the editors.
If you wish to subscribe please
give your name to Pat Jones or
Ellen Stone in Rhoads, or to any
other member of the Lantern board.
Problems of Unused Capacity,
Military Defense and Labor
Discussed at Meeting
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Bryn Mawr as well as General
Motors, J. P. Morgan and the War
Department was represented at the
conference held on Wednesday in
New York by the Academy of Po-
litical Science. The meeting dis-
cussed the defense of the United
States and the speakers included:
Wesley C. Mitchell, professor of
economics, Columbia University;
Professor Edward M. Earle, of
Princeton; Hanson W. Baldwin,
Military and Naval Correspondent
for The New York Times; Rear
Admiral Woodward; Major Gener-
al H. H. Arnold; Frank B. Jewett,
Bell Telephone Laboratories; Leo
Wolman, professor of economics,
Columbia University; Sumner H.
Slichter, Harvard University; Don-
ald B. Richberg; Donald B. Wood-
ward; Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan
and Co., Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of
General Motors; and the Honor-
able Robert P. Patterson, Assistant
Secretary of War. The Bryn Mawr
undergraduate trio, Eileen Dur-
ning, '41, Susie Ingalls, '41, and
Madge Daly, '42, were joined by an
audience of cigars and briefcases.
The various speakers were sum-
marized in Thursday's New York
Times but certain generalizations
seem worth repeating. The United
States has at present a large
amount of unused capacity with
respect to capital, labor, raw ma-
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Mid-Years
The Mid-Year Examina-
tion schedule has been posted.
Any conflict or necessary
modifications should be re-
ported immediately to the
Recorder's Office. Other
changes cannot be made un-
less the request is made in
writing, with the signature
of the professor and each
member of the class approv-
ing another date.
British War Reliefs
Will Hold Xmas Sale
On next Monday and Tuesday, at
the Deanery, the Bryn Mawr
branches of British War Relief and
Bundles For Britain will join
forces in a Christmas Sale. On
sale will be Christmas cards, jewel-
ry, cigarette cases, compacts, play-
ing cards, etc. Chances will be
sold for a handkerchief which be-
longed to Queen Victoria, and tea
will be served free to everyone who
buys two or more dollars' worth of
goods. Otherwise it will cost 26
cents. Purchases may be put on
payday.
Music Group
Plans are being made for
a new musical group consist-
ing of singers and instru-
mentalists from Bryn Mawr
and Haverford. This group
will be open to anyone who
wishes to try out, although
at first it will be small.
Madrigals, cantatas, and mu-
sic not included in the work
of the choir will be sung, for
pleasure only and not for
concert performance. Mr.
Willoughby, Miss Rice, and
Mr. Lafford will direct the
work. More detailed plans
will be announced later.
Community Bibliographical
And Research Center
Is Being Planned
Charles Wendell David of Bryn
Mawr has been appointed Director
of Libraries at the University of
Pennsylvania. Miss Park joined
Dr. Gates, president of the Univer-
sity, in announcing that Dr. David
will continue his Bryn Mawr pro-
fessorship and that he has also
been made professor of history at
the University of Pennsylvania.
The office, Director of Libraries,
has been created to unify the work
of the University's main library
and its numerous departmental li-
braries. Dr. David's task is of
special importance, however, for it
will include coordinating the Uni-
versity's resources with the new
plans for the community biblio-
graphical and research center on
the University campus. Dr. Gates
announced that the Carnegie Cor-
poration has granted 20,000 dollars
to finance the new plans for one
year on an experimental basis.
The Union Catalogue Library of
the Philadelphia Metropolitan area
which has a membership of over
150 libraries, has been moved from
the Pennsylvania Historical Socie-
ty to the University of Pennsyl-
vania's School of Fine Arts in close
proximity to the Pennsylvania li-
brary. The Carnegie fund will be
used toward building around the
Union Catalogue Library a biblio-
graphical and research center
which would, in time, be unique in
its scope for the East if not for the
whole country-
Dr. David has been one of the
leaders in the work already done'
in listing the resources of virtually
all public, academic, and special li-
braries in this vicinity, and is
vice-chairman of the committee di-
recting the new plans. Dr. David's
schedule for this semester will be
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Missing Pajamas Provide Dreary Dilemmas;
Trundling Washers Debunk College Tradition
Careful, Children!
The students are requested
to be more cautious on the
campus road. A school is
near.
Criticism of Courses
Discussed by Council
On November 13, the College
Council discussed different methods
of criticizing courses. It was sug-
gested that the individual should
go to the professor and talk over
the course with him or that the
majors should submit reports of
their courses to the Curriculum
Committee. The Council finally de^
cided that a more effective method
than criticism through the Dean
or the Newt would be specific cri-
ticisms and discussions by the elass
as a whole, and that the last, ses-
sion of the class should be devoted
to a discussion of the course.
The Council also decided to keep
the First Aid Course under the
Physical Education Department,
but to give it more publicity. This
question was raised in view of the
fact that the Bryn Mawr Hospital
is offering a hundred hour course
in nursing.
To forestall misunderstandings
it was agreed that no faculty mem-
ber could refuse class cuts for as-
semblies.
By Marguerite Bogatko, '41
Even taking into account the
Bryn Mawr tradition of sloppiness,
laundry plays an important part in
all our lives. We may be* untidy
but it's a clean outdoorsy sort of
untidiness. All right then, we ad-
mit that a laundry might mean a
lot to us but do we ever ask our-
selves what we might mean to a
laundry?
There is on campus a small but
beautifully efficient organization
known as Rock Laundry. You've
probably seen their little red wag-
on rolling from hall to hall. At
any rate, a small but sincere group
of girls give their personal and in-
terested attention to youn-washing
problems. And in the course of
their efforts a host of obscure but
fascinating information is revealed
to them. �
As a very small link in the chain
perhaps I can explain what I mean.
Whenever I look at a certain girl
these days I think "Red Star slips
and Universal (We put the world
to sleep) pajamas." Or when one
is telling me to be quiet or to get
off the grass or is answering the
question I couldn't in class, I think
". . . yah, yah you're probably
wearing your Radelle Sylfit bra
today, and your Trushort, lace on
hem, Barbizon slip. That's all
that's the matter with you." It
helps a lot to have a little store of
specialized knowledge at hand when
you're dealing with other people or
they're dealing with you.
Then there is the mystery angle,
the identification or that indelible
ink side of the picture. Laundry
slips at times must be extraordi-
narily graphic to linger in the
imagination and connect clothing
with its rightful owner.
"1 laundry bag (dishcloth motif,
unmarked)
1 wash cloth (wet)
1 pink rayon slip (Bakanese 32,
jangled hemline)
1 poison green waist (Debwin,
blouse of the month)"
That's the kind of thing I mean.
As a final touch perhaps we should
just bring in the Rook laundry can-
vassing song. It Bears a little
thinking about
"Wash with us
For we'll slip you a slip
And we promise never to tear
or rip
Wash with us
And you'll have no regrets
We are the laundry that never
forgets."
Third Ambulance
A third ambulance has
been given from Bryn Mawr
for British Civilian relief
work by an anonymous mem-
ber of the faculty and his
family.
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